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HSK
rest / to rest
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *落* | 落* | *落
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
HSK 4
to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute) / (often used in the negative) to care about
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歇* | 歇* | *歇
to rest / to take a break / to stop / to halt / (dialect) to sleep / a moment / a short while
HSK 5
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *托* | 托* | *托
to hold up in one's hand; to support with one's palm / sth serving as a support: a prop, a rest (e.g. arm rest) / (bound form) a shill / to ask; to beg; to entrust (variant of 託|托) / torr (unit of pressure)
HSK 6
solely engrossed in one thing / just (one thing, no need to worry about the rest) / simply / by all means / please feel free / do not hesitate (to ask for sth)
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *趴* | 趴* | *趴
to lie on one's stomach / to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc) / (Tw) percent
HSK 7-9
at ease / to feel relieved / to set one's mind at rest / to keep one's mind on sth
HSK 7-9
whereabouts / place to settle / reliable source (of funds etc) / (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb / settlement / solution
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *息* | 息* | *息
breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]
to have a rest / to stay for the night / to go to bed / to sleep
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *休* | 休* | *休
to rest / to stop doing sth for a period of time / to cease / (imperative) don't
to rest and reorganize (military)
to stop on the way for a rest
to work and rest
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *枕* | 枕* | *枕
(bound form) pillow / to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhen4])
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *栖* | 栖* | *栖
to perch / to rest (of birds) / to dwell / to live / to stay
to compensate for working on a holiday by resting on a workday / to compensate for resting on a workday by working on a holiday
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *寝* | 寝* | *寝
(bound form) to lie down to sleep or rest / (bound form) bedroom / (bound form) imperial tomb / (literary) to stop; to cease
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *塈* | 塈* | *塈
(literary) to plaster / (literary) to pick up / (literary) to rest
to rest; to go to sleep / to rest in peace
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *呬* | 呬* | *呬
to rest
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *憩* | 憩* | *憩
to rest
to strike a balance between work and rest (idiom)
to rest for a bit / to take a breather
to be cut off from the rest of the world (idiom)
to rest / to recuperate / to regain composure
to accompany a deceased person to his last resting place; to hold a funeral
to feel unconcerned and let matters rest (idiom)
(idiom) to let the matter rest; to just let it go; to take it lying down (usu. used in the negative)
capital / assets / savings / nest egg / (fig.) reputation / laurels (to rest upon) / old edition of a book / (tree) trunk
to retire / to leave work and rest (euphemism for compulsory retirement of old cadres)
to sleep peacefully (idiom) / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
to rest / to relax / to take a break
to rest eternally; to lie buried in (one's final resting place)
unrelenting / without stopping to rest
(literary) to rest / to recuperate
to sleep soundly / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
to have a break / to rest
lit. to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom) / fig. fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle
to rest / to take a break
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *唞* | 唞* | *唞
to take a rest (Cantonese)
to pass away; to die; to rest eternally
to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels
to cease fire / armistice / rested troops
to rest one's chin in one's hand
to let the dough rest
to drift without a resting place (idiom) / roving / errant / vagrant / erratic
to put sth to rest / calm down a bit!
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan) / keep what is good, discard the rest / You need to be selective when studying. / In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas.
without stopping to sleep or have a rest (idiom)
(literary) to take a rest / (literary) to cease
to let matters rest
(literary) to put down one's burden / to rest / to stay (at an inn etc)
lit. the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest (idiom) / fig. (of knowledge, skill etc) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
to live out the rest of one's life
to lean on / to rest against / to rely on / support / backing / back of a chair
to stop for a rest
to eat without working (idiom) / to take one's pay and not care about the rest
the master leads you to the door, the rest is up to you / you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
to rest weapons and loosen armor (idiom); to relax from fighting
to put down weapon and let soldiers rest (idiom); to relax from fighting
to make a rest stop at a hotel / to put sth into storage
lit. rising and lying down, working and resting (idiom) / fig. everyday life; daily routine; to go about one's daily life
to let the dough rest
lit. to rest and fly together (idiom) / fig. to live in each other's pockets / to be inseparable
Longkan Shoujian, Chinese character dictionary from 997 AD containing 26,430 entries, with radicals placed into 240 rhyme groups and arranged according to the four tones, and the rest of the characters similarly arranged under each radical


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